From 5eef7fa905c814826f518aca2d414ca77508ce30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:49:22 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] fs: dcache documentation cleanup Remove redundant (and incorrect, since dcache RCU lookup) dentry locking documentation and point to the canonical document. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin --- include/linux/dcache.h | 18 ++++++------------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h index 6a4aea3..fff9755 100644 --- a/include/linux/dcache.h +++ b/include/linux/dcache.h @@ -141,22 +141,16 @@ struct dentry_operations { char *(*d_dname)(struct dentry *, char *, int); }; -/* the dentry parameter passed to d_hash and d_compare is the parent +/* + * Locking rules for dentry_operations callbacks are to be found in + * Documentation/filesystems/Locking. Keep it updated! + * + * the dentry parameter passed to d_hash and d_compare is the parent * directory of the entries to be compared. It is used in case these * functions need any directory specific information for determining * equivalency classes. Using the dentry itself might not work, as it * might be a negative dentry which has no information associated with - * it */ - -/* -locking rules: - big lock dcache_lock d_lock may block -d_revalidate: no no no yes -d_hash no no no yes -d_compare: no yes yes no -d_delete: no yes no no -d_release: no no no yes -d_iput: no no no yes + * it. */ /* d_flags entries */ -- 2.7.4